Muneeza Shamsie

Muneeza Shamsie (nee Habibullah) is the author of a literary
history Hybrid Tapestries: The Development of Pakistani
Literature in English (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
and is Managing Editor of a work-in-progress The Oxford
Companion to the Literatures of Pakistan . She has edited
three anthologies of Pakistani English Literature including And
The World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women
(Women Unlimited 2005): its award winning US edition (Feminist
Press at CUNY, 2008) included new headwords and a new expanded
introduction.
She is the Bibliographic Representative (Pakistan) for The
Journal of Commonwealth Literature , is on the international
advisory board of The Journal of Postcolonial Writing and
has guest edited its two issues: 52.2. "Al-Andalus" (2016) and 47.2
issue "Beyond Geography: Literature, Politics and Violence in
Pakistan" (2011)
She is also on the International Advisory Board for the DSC Prize
for South Asian Literature and was a member of its 2013 judging
panel. She has served as the regional judge (Europe and South Asia)
for the Commonwealth Writers Prize (2010 and 2011). She is on the
Advisory Board of Bengal Lights.
. She contributes regularly to The Literary Encyclopedia
and in Pakistan to the newspaper Dawn and the periodical
Newsline . Her memoir essays have appeared in various
publications including The Journal of Commonwealth and
Postcolonial Studies 16.1 (2009), Critical Muslim: 04:
Pakistan? (2012), 50 Shades of Feminism (Virago,
2013) and Moving Worlds 13.2.: Postcolonial Cities: South
Asia (2013). She was born in Lahore, educated in England and
lives in Karachi.